Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell praised the anti-Semitic founder of the New Black Panther Party. Another strong supporter of Bell was eventually Obama White House counsel Cassandra Butts, the White House lawyer when the New Black Panther voter intimidation case was dismissed.

Powerline has the story of Derrick Bell praising the venomous anti-Semite Khalid Muhammad, former head of the New Black Panther Party. The dots that Powerline connected are the dots between Derrick Bell, Khalid Muhammad and the New Black Panther Party. But White House counsel Cassandra Butts was also involved in the now-famous Harvard Law School rally for Bell. Butts helped organize the rally supporting Bell and escorted him to be introduced.

Butts, nearly 20 years later, may have played a role in the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case according to multiple reports.

As a member of the DOJ team that brought the case against the New Black Panther Party, it staggers the imagination that Barack Obama’s beloved law professor Derrick Bell had anything positive to say about this radical racist anti-Semite. This is simply disheartening. You would think “esteemed” Harvard Law professors wouldn’t say nice things about a man who called for the murder of white women and children:

We kill the women. We kill the children. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the crippled. We kill the crazies. We kill ‘em all. We kill the faggots. We kill the lesbians. We kill them all.

Bell’s view of Khalid Muhammad? “We should really appreciate the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads while we’ve got them.”

We are beginning to see why the Left went into warp drive to tell us Derrick Bell wasn’t important.

If we’ve learned anything in the last week, we learned there are some very strange social and legal circles from the far fringes, and unfortunately, the far fringes are now in power.

Now consider the strange case of Cassandra Butts (left of Bell in photo below):

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Mark O.Peterson

Mr. Adams as a young graduate student in sociology, a discipline from which much of this destructive ideology is imagined and propagated, I can tell you that I read your most recent book and became appalled at the collective madness and cynical manipulation of the racialists both in your former Dept and in the Obama administration at large. Before reading your book I had called the justice dept in reference to voter suppression by Republican and Democratic communications strategists on FOX news who were falsely claiming that the South Carolina Republican primary was a closed primary. Within 30 seconds of that telephone conversation I had with the justice dept I had been told that Ron Paul supporters were not really a priority because they were generally not members of a “historically disadvantaged group.” As a former Obama supporter I never imagined that this extremely dubious approach to law enforcement would ever infect the nations supreme law enforcement agency. The sickness that I felt in my stomach with the impervious nonsense this “attorney” spouted to justify why my claim mattered less because I’m white has not left me in two months. I take to heart Thomas Sowell’s interpretation of constrained vs. unconstrained vision in history and am increasingly beginning to fear that the lawlessness, anti-American ideology, and Neo-Marxist Utopian vision of this administration could lead to some kind of dictatorship…the targeting of constitutionalists for DHS scrutiny reminds me of a precursor to KGB show-trials… I’m writing to tell you that I admire your work, and I’m proud to call you one of my countrymen.

You can tell it probably better than I can, but if you really want to understand why this all matters so much, I wrote about it in the book. At issue is whether America will be based on the ideas of equality before law in the 14th and 15th amendments, or some other model.

They asking for names and more names, some of these groups are being represented by ACLJ. What will the IRS do with the names they are gathering? Any chance these folks will be audited? What happens if Obama wins a second term? I don’t want to find out.

I am a regular caller to my reps. office in DC. My questions are always why did this happen, please explain.
The past three years the IRS has found something wrong with my return.
The past two errors were on the part of the IRS, the first cost me an additional $16.00.
Harassment?

This is all just proof that the Lame stream EneMedia were more than just derelict in their DUTY of vetting Obambi the ‘Document Hiding man with no History’ during the last election cycle. In fact that were not only derelict in their duty they were positively complicit in both covering for and spinning the narrative that the Deem ‘O’ Crats wanted to push i.e. the nebulous undefined ‘Hopey Changey’ thing

As conservatives, we need to understand that what we see as the “duty” of the MSM to vet lib/prog/dems simply doesn’t exist outside our viewpoint. What we may like to view as a “duty” they see and use as an opportunity to wield the power of the press as a political weapon, a one-sided process designed by them to assassinate anyone they see as an opponent. They vet conservatives ONLY; lib/progs get an automatic free pass. It’s how their system was designed from the start, and it’s the ONLY way they can ever succeed.

Years ago, a good friend of mine earned a regular commission in the U.S. Army. His was not a reserve commission. He thought, somewhat naively at the time, that a regular Army commission was equal to any other regular Army commission, including those granted to West Pointers. However, during his service in the Army, he witnessed repeated instances of favoritism granted to West Pointers by their commanders, who were also West Pointers. This old boys’ network favoritism was called “ring knocking”—-one West Pointer knocking the ring of the other West Pointer in a secret handshake sort of thing.

The connections noted in this article are simply “ring knocking” among Harvard Law School graduates—-black radical Harvard Law graduates that they may be. It is all quite natural—a sort of tribalism. A corrupt man I used to know in my youth regularly lectured to me the old saying, “It is not what you know, but who you know that counts.”

What Obama’s ring knocking shows, however, is evidence of another old saying, “Birds of a feather stick together.” Obama really cannot, in good conscience, claim that he is not a radical when he surrounds himself with radicals, who baptized in “critical legal theory” principles are intent upon overthrowing our society by any means necessary, short of armed revolution.

But then, who said that Obama has a conscience.

(Disclosure: I wear my gold Harvard College ring proudly, but coming from a background which disdains showiness and flash, my class ring shows no flashy stone and does not proclaim to the world the word Harvard, a big ‘H’, or a relief of its benefactor, John Harvard. It simply looks like a simple signet ring with the Latin word for truth, Veritas, imprinted upon it. Apart from several youthful lapses in judgment, I have tried to live a life based on truth. By comparison, truth and Obama are completely antithetical to each other.)

Wanna place a bet? Most, if not all, of the Black Harvard grads, as well as other schools, surely did not achieve the goods/credentials to gain admission in the first place.

This PC psychosis has become so out of control that I would not be surprised if a very large percentage of Black doctors and lawyers are dangerously ill equipped to serve their clients.

Few dare to talk about such things, but it is the case. I cannot begin to tell the readers the ratio of first yr drop outs from MIT who are ‘protected’ minorities. Whereas the school admits far less of these substandard students than Harvard (and the rest of the race obsessed pack) it is a travesty of enormous proportions that being Black (or another ‘special’ group) gains one access just by the color of their skin or gender.

The US will suffer due to its social engineering to a degree yet unknown. Yes, it will.

Just read Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski and you will indeed find Communism and Fascism have the same intellectual roots and instincts. Then when you get to the part that shows the sad inheritance that the modern university intellectuals received from the Frankfurt school Marxists none of this would even for a moment be shocking but rather predictable.

Please however do not single out the black intellectual Left but rather realize they are doing the dirty work of their masters and are a symptom but not necessarily the source of the problem. This is what they have decided to do to get ahead. If they didn’t sound like sour Old World Socialists they wouldn’t have had an academic future and by extension a political and government future. At least Obama has the excuse his white leftist mother and grandfather raised him that way.

It is truly amazing that people like this are held up and protected by the liberals in this country. The hate they sprew is unbelievable and disheartening. I guess racism is prevalent in this country, unfortunately, most of it seems to be coming from black leaders.

What we are witnessing here is that when a leftist/liberal takes a position no matter what is discovered later about that position, they will not change their advocacy for it. You all know that there are many liberals that have respect for the Constitution, like Allen Dershowitz, and in their hearts they must be appalled at what is going on in this administration. Remember the federal inspector that discovered that the mayor of Sacramento, who was black and a friend of Michelle’s, was corrupt and then he was quickly fired for his findings? Remember the big Black politician in Mississippi who was known as a White voter intimidator but the DOJ would not prosecute him even after the evidence was presented? Remember the Shirley Sherrod case that Andrew Breitbart exposed but the DOJ would not investigate? Remember the Pigford Black farmers suit against the Agricultural Dept. for not giving them loans and then it went from 18,000 Black farmers to over 96,000 and Obama wanted to pay the claim? Remember when the Harvard professor was involved with resisting arrest but Obama declared that even though he knew nothing of the incident that the police had acted stupidly? Remember when the New Black Panther Party leader called for the killing of White children and babies and Obama and the DOJ said nothing? Are you starting to see a pattern here? It looks like the OJ Simpson jury is running the WH and it’s PAY BACK TIME for the Bros!

When one of the Duke Lacrosse players faced a judge in DC over a spurious “hate crime” for which he had previously received probation, the DOJ sent something like five lawyers to the court. When Senator Stevens of Alaska was indicted, his lawyers were not given evidence from the DOJ lawyers that would have helped their case, as they were required to do.

It seems to me that the DOJ needs a thorough cleaning out, from top to bottom. Is it even possible to accomplish? If so, how?

It does not take so much effort to see why the black panther case was dismissed. Just take a hard look at the Holder so called “justice department”. We already have whistle blowers who have resigned from this blatantly racist justice department. Look at who is in the white house and who is at justice and where holder worked before he went to justice and who is third in command at justice is–another lawyer representing terrorists. This DOJ is a disgrace. Fast and furious by itself should be enough to throw holder in jail. I assure you if it were a republican the media would never hear the end of it. Obama and his thugs need to be impeached.

“You can’t help but wonder what other nasty surprises will be found under rocks turned over by the new media in the next few months.”

Oh, there will be plenty of surprises, but none will be be covered by the mainstream press. None of it.

Can you imagine the media uproar if the Bush DOJ had dismissed a case of black voter intimidation by the KKK in Birmingham? It would have been round-the-clock, top of the hour, above the fold coverage for months. But most Americans have never even heard of the case.

My wish is for Eric Holder not to leave office because Obama was defeated in November. I want him to leave office before then, because Obama had no choice but to fire him for his malpractice. Between this and the lives lost due to Holder’s gun-running operation Holder really needs to be forced out.

Seems to me we’re wasting a lot of emotion on something that doesn’t really have any strong legs. If any of this were even true, especially the part about Holder’s attention to running guns to Mexico, we’d see some real action from all our Senate representatives. Afterall, they can bring the show to a screeching halt with a real filibuster. I’m just guessing that all of this is just political bluster…OR our senators are scared their Pampers might leak.

Our Sen. and Cong. are getting $$$ to allow all that is going on to happen.
Obama went to Libya w/o congressional approval, did anyone say anything?
Is anyone saying anything about obamacare, voter fraud, fema centers, education “reform”, states rights (az, tx) etc. etc.
Ya. ya they all grumble a bit but anything else will never happen.

I’ll go along with “no legs”. However: “If any of this were even true,…”????

We are talking about politics, right? You are aware that truth has nothing to do with what goes on in public in Washington, right? The “no legs” part is due to self interest of those in office, not the interests of the US or the citizens.

‘This doesn’t matter’ as we are told over and over by the grey beards who claim that you can’t defeat Obama by stating he’s a radical. (Oddly enough its a claim made by people who simultaneously try to mimimize his radical past by claiming that Derrick Bell was really mainstream and ‘conservative’ for Harvard law.)

The right wingers are for the most part stuck in a echo chamber of non-factual hyperbolic crap thought. The entire premise of this article is false. The conclusions lead to completely wrong actions. None of this is helping anyone, right or left. If any of this matters everyone should stop with the BS.

Corruption, corruption, corruption! We must stop these people. We must take back the Senate to get something done. If the left thinks that the fight between the GOP candiates is splitting the Party they will soon see the might of the silent majority!!

the deeper one digs into Obama’s past and associations the deeper the doo-doo of cronyism and jewhate, racial politics, communism, pure hate of the core values that made this nation great. you see the paybacks coming around to those from his anti American past, stacking the deck so to speak with like minded – too bad the left in USA not only won’t look but will actively cover as much as they can and make apologetics for the rest.
UGH- I never dreamed I would live to see the USA under power and spell of such a disgusting bunch of people.

I would sell tickets to see the new president appoint J. Christian Adams as the next Attorney General. I also would pay an entire month’s income just to watch Eric Holder and others in the DOJ and this administration spending the next four years in angst wondering when or if the axe would fall.

What scares me most of all is all the lack of enforcement(s). The rot is throughout gov’t at every level, and this is only the case because there is just as much refusal to stop it/them. That’s the scariest part. This lack of enforcement(s) is directly responsible for the empowerment of all the lawbreakers we now have for gov’t. It/all should have been nipped in the bud, in every case, at every level. No slippery slopes allowed, anywhere, ever. Without enforcement our constitution and our laws no longer mean anything. We are just about to the point of having a king, his thugs, and a ruling class. And the sole reason is the lack of enforcement.

“Butts, the transition general counsel, bonded with Obama as they filled out the financial aid forms guaranteeing years of debt for their Harvard education. As a Washington operative, Butts would later connect Obama to key figures such as Dick Gephardt during the infancy of his national political career. On the presidential campaign, she served as a domestic policy adviser.

At Harvard, Butts was moot court partners with Perrelli, who first met Obama at the dinner party and served as his managing editor on the Harvard Law Review. “

“Cassandra Butts ’91, a close friend of Obama’s, has been serving as general counsel, a job that includes vetting possible appointees for ethical conflicts. She served as Obama’s domestic policy advisor on the campaign. Prior to working on Obama’s 2008 Presidential bid, Butts was senior vice president for domestic policy at the Center for American Progress and was a senior advisor to Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO).”